It's all complete lies. There was not any malware at all, technically it wasn't even malicious. He simply added a systemd timer and script (called xeactor) to gather basic system info. https://ptpb.pw/~x. I wouldn't really call it malware but its a perfect example of why you should read the PKGBUILDS if you install user submitted packages. If someone is stupid enough to blindly install an unofficial app, then they deserve to be infected. Too bad that it wasn't actually malicious.

It was an orphaned pkg (acroread - who even uses it?) and some pleb adopted it, added a timer and script to gather basic system info, which didn't even work.. and then left you a 'compromised.txt' in your home to brag... User was known to devs, known moron who wanted help installing kali.

"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain." -George Orwell, 1984

"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain." -George Orwell, 1984

"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain." -George Orwell, 1984